Wednesday July 1, 03:05 PM
CORRECTED-Kenyan inflation eases to 17.8 pct in June -official
NAIROBI, June 30 (Reuters) - Kenya's headline inflation slipped to 17.8 percent in June from 19.5 percent in May as food prices fell, an official with the government's statistics office said on Tuesday.
Underlying inflation, which excludes food prices, decreased to 5.8 percent from 7.0 percent previously.
The annual average underlying inflation rate fell to 9.9 percent in June from 10.3 percent in May.
'The decrease was due to a continued fall in the prices of sukuma wiki (kales), cabbages, potatoes and other seasonal food items,' Rogers Mumo, ICT manager for the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, told Reuters.
(Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura) Keywords: KENYA INFLATION/
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